Saturday, October 10, 2015

Bulletin: Glenn Ford: Louisiana; Preview of Sixty Minutes documentary set for Sunday evening: Sunday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT..CBS.: "Prosecutor laments role in wrongful death row conviction "I was a coward" says former prosecutor, admitting his role in the wrongful conviction of a man who spent 30 years on death row."

"It
was 1983 in Shreveport, Louisiana, when a local jeweler had been robbed
and murdered. Quickly, the prosecutor on the case, Marty Stroud, was
convinced he had the man who did it, Glenn Ford. The evidence
against Ford was circumstantial. The jury quickly came back with a
guilty verdict and sentenced Ford to death. Last year after Ford spent
three decades in a maximum-security prison, it was discovered that the
state convicted the wrong man. Now, the former prosecutor in the
case confesses to his role in sending the wrong man to death row. Bill
Whitaker reports on this tragic miscarriage of justice on the next
edition of 60 Minutes Sunday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT...Dale Cox, the current acting
district attorney of Caddo Parish, said he did his job. "I got him out
of jail as quickly as I could. That's what the obligation of the state
is," he tells Whitaker. He agrees that what happened to Ford is not
fair, but maintains it was not illegal. "I'm not in the compassion
business, none of us as prosecutors or defense lawyers are in the
compassion business. I think the ministry is in the compassion business.
We're in the legal business," says Cox." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/prosecutor-laments-role-in-wrongful-death-row-conviction/

About Me

My interest in forensic pathology began with my Toronto Star investigative reporting into once famed since disgraced former doctor Charles Smith. I began this Blog after retiring from the Star in 2006 in order to follow the aftermath into the independent Goudge inquiry into many of Smith's cases. I have now begun to focus on cases involving flawed forensic science no matter where they occur (the recent Amanda Knox prosecution in Italy, for example) and am fascinated by the interest in the Blog from people in countries throughout the world. In another development, my interest in "junk science" "pseudo-experts" and the miscarriages of justice they all too often cause has drawn me deeply into the on-going U.S. death penalty debate where so many troubling cases involve issues relating to DNA and other developments in the world of forensic science. For all of this I rely on my experience as a reporter at the Toronto Star, my work as a lawyer in Ontario's criminal courts, and my abhorrence of injustice. Please send cases and developments which may be of interest to this Blog to hlevy15@gmail.com. Read on! Harold Levy.